277,513,180 total cases
5,393,128 dead
248,601,766 recovered
In the US:
52,506,200 total cases
832,939 dead
40,908,146 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
4103 dead in one day? Did some state report on a backlog?
Must have been; under the numbers it does show the 20th was adjusted to
193,227 new cases and 2,051 new deaths
The numbers I posted showed under 200 for that day, I think, so that could be half of what you noticed.
Pfizer is no longer alone with this:
Published today, here’s a remarkable estimate of how many people in England had COVID last week (from the UK Office For National Statistics, no less):
- In England, the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) increased in the week ending 16 December 2021; we estimate that 1,202,300 people in England had COVID-19 (95% credible interval: 1,146,800 to 1,263,000), equating to around 1 in 45 people.
My bold. Source.
j
In the game Plague Inc., I’ve found that the best way to kill the planet is to have a malady with mild symptoms that is easily transmittable so that it can spread everywhere quickly, then mutate it so the symptoms become more debilitating and deadly. That way, the support infrastructure begins to break down, which slows the research. Eventually the research can’t possibly keep up with the problem simply because too many people are dead.
Let me guess: a mutation in that game affects all the disease organisms at once, right? (Which, of course, is not the way real life organisms work, thankfully.)
Biden to Lift Travel Ban on Southern African Countries
About time. That horse left the barn well before we closed the door
That old adage about closing the barn door after the horse left needs to be deprecated. Horses don’t usually work that way. When they get loose, they generally don’t really go anywhere. They just hang around, and probably get into the oat barrel and gorge themselves.
Cows, on the other hand, really wander. If your cows somehow get loose, they will be all over the neighborhood.
Holy crap. On the 23rd I posted the UK Office For National Statistics estimate of how many people in England had COVID last week: 1 in 45 people.
Here we are on the 24th:
- In England, the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) was 2.83%; we estimate that 1,544,600 people in England had COVID-19 (95% credible interval: 1,477,900 to 1,615,800), equating to around 1 in 35 people.
My bold. Source
j
Something I mentioned here or in the omicron thread: Even if it’s mild, the sheer number of people out sick will cause disruptions.
Thousands of Christmastime flights have been canceled around the world as airlines say the fast-spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus is preventing staffers from working.
Also, as mentioned early on regarding South Africa’s experience, kids are being hospitalized in higher numbers.
Floriduh:
Here’s some news:
279,345,816 total cases
5,409,044 dead
249,652,717 recovered
In the US:
52,986,307 total cases
837,671 dead
40,994,250 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
[Emphasis min, in both quotes]
“It’s too early to relax, but it’s encouraging that we are not following the worst-case scenario,” said Tyra Grove Krause, the chief epidemiologist at Denmark’s State Serum Institute.
Over the past week, the country has fared better than it was expecting. After surging to record-breaking levels, the number of daily cases has stabilized. Officials recorded 12,500 cases on Thursday, compared with 11,000 late last week.
More important, hospitalizations have come in — so far — on the very low end of what was projected.
Looking at the UK and Denmark it seems like we are about a week behind them. That being the case we’d expect a plateau in cases around now then a drop in the new year. Already we seem to have seen the end of exponential growth. Peak hospitalisations up by about 30-40% perhaps.
That’s if it follows the same pattern of course. We have less people double jabbed but more boosted so that may turn out to be a wash.
Very hard to run direct comparisons between countries but certainly it is looking like bottom-end scenarios are more likely than top.
The real issue may turn out to be abscences from services because lots of people are testing positive, not that they are actually ill.
The othe thing that I don’t know (and that may prove crucial to the infection curve) is whether omicron has more asymptomatic infections than other variants.
I’ve seen no hard evidence on that but if it is milder overall and more like cold symptoms anyway I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a greater proportion than the 40% for other variants who never know they have it.
I have never understood why anybody would be willing to set foot on a cruise ship under present circumstances. They’re floating petri dishes in the best of times.
I wouldn’t want to, but I’m sure they slashed prices, and mid-year it looked as though the worst might be over.
Surely this is the tragedy that will motivate the world: